Mile High United Way Awards CVNA With $20,000 Grant
This June, we were awarded a 2020-2021 Strategic Investment grant from Mile High United Way. We are thrilled to be partnering with them to support the care of our community! You may not first [...]
Grant will support our efforts to help older adults stay in their homes longer
The Colorado Visiting Nurse Association just received an amazing grant from the NextFifty Initiative to support our CAPABLE program. The nearly $48,000 grant will support our work under the [...]
The case for home-based care in Colorado
Things are changing in Colorado and I don’t just mean the seasons, Colorado’s population is changing. Colorado is growing older and with an older population brings the need for more [...]
Colorado Visiting Nurse Association Partners with Health Recovery Solutions to reduce hospital readmissions for heart failure patients through a pilot telemedicine program
In October 2017, Colorado Visiting Nurse Association’s (VNA) partnered with innovative telehealth company, Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), to launch a pilot intervention program for adults [...]
Nervous about the future, CVNA is getting ready for changing demographics in Colorado
At the behest of House Bill 15-1033, which passed in 2015, a “multidisciplinary private and public sector stakeholders’’ group to develop a comprehensive strategic action plan on aging through [...]
2016, Looking Back, Looking Forward at CVNA
The 2016 CVNA Annual Report is out and it includes an Infographic detailing the services CVNA provided. In reviewing the report, I am delighted and awed – and hope you are, too – by all that our [...]
Reframing CVNA’s Strategic Plan
It’s time to think differently about aging. As Colorado VNA’s CEO, I think about aging and the perception of aging a lot given that over 75% of patients we serve are 65 and older. In fact, [...]
The Dentists of Feet: How Colorado VNA is Keeping Feet Healthy
Over the last two decades, we’ve come to understand that oral health means much more than healthy teeth. As the American Dental Association states “Your mouth is a window into the health of your [...]
Why non-profits need to partner
As I described in this post there is massive growth in the elderly population in Colorado with projections of more than 1.4 million people over the age of 65 in Colorado by 2030. This surge is [...]
CAPABLE, a low-cost program to improve senior independence?
The population in Colorado is aging quickly, more quickly than most other states. Related to our aging population, is the rising cost in healthcare, much of it fueled by chronic disease [...]
